19th CENTURY LIT
THE HOMOPHONICS GAME
CHEMISTRY
CAPTURE THE FLAG
NAME THAT ACTOR
200
'In Chapter 1 of this sequel, a mirror "becomes all soft like gauze", allowing entrance to another world'
Through the Looking-Glass
200
'A howitzer that fires a list of all the saints acknowledged by the Church'
a canon cannon
200
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Jeopardy! lab.) The juice from blackberries can make ordinary construction paper into this "testing" type of scientific paper'
litmus paper
200
'In 1984 Egypt replaced the hawk on its flag with this other bird of prey'
the eagle
200
'"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me."
Aren't you?"'
Dustin Hoffman
400
'This Bronte sister published her novel "Agnes Grey" under the pseudonym Acton Bell'
Anne Brontë
400
'This bench-mounted clamp holds a bad habit'
a vise vice
400
'Good news! Ilya Prigogine showed that the second law of this doesn't doom the universe to a slow "heat death"'
thermodynamics
400
'Afghanistan's flag has a mosque in a wreath made of stalks of this grain'
wheat
400
'"You're gonna need a bigger boat"'
Roy Scheider
600
'His "Ode to the West Wind" was "chiefly written in a wood that skirts the Arno, near Florence"'
Shelley
600
'Donkey noises while cooking meat in liquid in a covered pot'
brays braise
600
'A free radical is an atom or molecule that has an unpaired one of these'
an electron
600
'A tapering flag that ends in 2 points is named for its resemblance to this bird's "tail"'
a swallow
600
'"Fasten your seatbelts.
It's going to be a bumpy night"'
Bette Davis
800
'Appropriately, this Russian playwright wrote an 1892 story called "After the Theater"'
Chekhov
800
'A Siamese dead heat'
a Thai tie
800
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Jeopardy! lab.) Putting dry ice in water shows a solid transforming directly into a gas, a process called this'
sublimation
800
'A flagpole is also called a staff or this nautical term'
a mast
800
'"Cinderella story.
Outta nowhere. A former groundskeeper, now about to become the Masters champion..."'
Bill Murray
1000
'Bored Lady Constantine finds passion with an astronomer in--where else?--Wessex in his "Two on a Tower"'
Thomas Hardy
1000
'To elevate mantas'
to raise rays
1000
'Bromine & chlorine are in a group of elements better known by this name, from the Greek for "salt-forming"'
halogens
1000
'This word for the upper-left part of a flag is a place name on maps of China & Ohio'
a canton
1000
'"I'm the ghost with the most, babe"'
Michael Keaton
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